House conservatives are facing additional pressure to pass the Senate-revised budget blueprint that lays the foundation for moving forward on President Donald Trump’s agenda, and it is expected that a critical vote will take place as early as Wednesday.
The 22 Republican governors supported the blueprint in a letter to Trump Tuesday, citing the need for homes to move urgently when enacting the president’s agenda. The governor’s decision to infiltrate Capitol Hill’s budget settlement fight comes as House conservatives threaten to fight the blueprint of the budget that Trump has approved. (Related: Senate GOP is poised to provide permanent tax easing with a Trump-backed bill)
“We are on your side in supporting the House budget resolution’s Senate amendment because we know that failure is not an option,” the GOP Governor wrote to Trump. “We believe this budget resolution sets a strong foundation for building it, which gives Congressional Republicans the tools they need to enact the entire Trump agenda.”
House GOP Leadership aims to pass the budget blueprint before the chamber leaves Washington for its two-week break, scheduled to begin Thursday. Otherwise, they will pass the president’s taxes and hit a significant blow to spending priorities due to the anniversary deadline that Mike Johnson has floated. Leadership is currently working to persuade holdouts to support budget planning.
.@potus Absolutely right, it’s not a better time than now to offer America’s first agenda.
let’s do it, @housegop. pic.twitter.com/79qw08pig3
– Speaker Mike Johnson (@speakerjohnson) April 8, 2025
Congressional Republicans are trying to establish Trump’s legislative priorities through a process known as budget settlements that allow Senate Republicans to bypass and move forward with a simple majority vote.
The first step in the budget settlement process is to pass the budget settlement currently under consideration in the House of Representatives. Senate Republicans passed the House budget resolution, which was amended on Saturday, to enable a permanent extension of the Trump tax cuts and an additional deficit increase in Saturday’s, implementing the president’s other tax priorities.
Deficit-centric conservatives, including Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy and Maryland Republican Rep. Andy Harris, House Freedom Chairman, have suggested that House GOP leadership will oppose budget resolutions if they move forward by voting for Trump-approved budget plans.
WASHINGTON, DC – March 5: House Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Harris (R-MD) (second from left) speaks to the press on March 5, 2025, in Washington, DC along with other members outside the West Wing of the White House. (Photo: Anna Money Maker/Getty Images)
“He is [Trump is] I’m not going to change my mind,” Harris said. I said A reporter on Tuesday cited concerns that the budget blueprint doesn’t have a compulsory spending cut.
“The Senate is very clear that there is little intention to reduce spending,” Roy said. I wrote it X Monday.
Senate Republicans argue that the budget resolution’s floating spending cuts are merely the starting point for finding consensus on future tax and spending bills that can be finalised early in May. Additionally, according to Senate Majority Leader John Tune, the Senate should allow maximum flexibility in such reductions to ensure compliance with procedural rules.
“I just want to be very clear by maximizing my savings. The House and Senate are united to do everything possible about this,” Thune said on the Senate’s floor on March 31. We chart the biceps course, but that doesn’t stop us from maximizing our savings. ”
Trump said the Senate budget resolution has “complete and complete support” in a true society. post Monday night.
“All the necessary elements to secure borders, enact historical spending cuts and make tax cuts permanent are strongly covered and expressed in the bill,” Trump wrote. “We don’t have a better time to get this deal done than we are now!”
“You need to pass it right away!” President I wrote it April 2nd.
The expected bill is expected to include more than $100 billion in border security funds, new defense spending, reforms to federal energy policy and increased statutory debt restrictions. White House Border Tum Homan I said On Tuesday, Congress said it would take too long to pass the budget plan.
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer told Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo that House GOP leadership will succeed in passing the budget blueprint on the floor this week.
“Don’t underestimate us” Emmer I said Baltiromo in an interview on Tuesday. “Please don’t underestimate us. We did this with a budget resolution. We did this with an ongoing resolution that took care of the budget until September. There were a lot of people with voter certificates.
House GOP Holdout is scheduled to meet with Trump at the White House on Tuesday afternoon to discuss concerns in the budget plan.
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